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Exploring emotion recognition in adults and adolescents with anorexia nervosa using a body motion paradigm

Lang, K; Dapelo, MM; Khondoker, M; Morris, R; Surguladze, S; Treasure, J; Tchanturia, K; (2015) Exploring emotion recognition in adults and adolescents with anorexia nervosa using a body motion paradigm. European Eating Disorders Review , 23 (4) pp. 262-268. 10.1002/erv.2358. Green open access

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Abstract

Objective: There is consistent evidence of difficulties in social cognition in adults with anorexia nervosa (AN), but less is known about adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability to recognise emotion expressed in body movement in adults and adolescents with AN. Method: One hundred and ninety-three females participated in the study (AN = 97: 61 adults and 36 adolescents). The performance of participants with AN on a body emotion recognition task was compared to age-matched healthy controls (HC = 96). Results: AN participants were significantly worse than HC recognising sadness, with adolescent AN participants showing worse performance overall. There were no difficulties in the recognition of other emotions. Discussion: The results partially support previous studies and the literature on facial emotion recognition, showing poorer recognition of sadness in AN. The results also suggest that difficulties in emotion recognition through body movements may be more subtle than other socio-emotional difficulties observed in AN.

Type: Article
Title: Exploring emotion recognition in adults and adolescents with anorexia nervosa using a body motion paradigm
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/erv.2358
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.2358
Language: English
Additional information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Lang, K; Dapelo, MM; Khondoker, M; Morris, R; Surguladze, S; Treasure, J; Tchanturia, K; (2015) Exploring emotion recognition in adults and adolescents with anorexia nervosa using a body motion paradigm. European Eating Disorders Review , 23 (4) pp. 262-268, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.2358. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Keywords: Emotion recognition, anorexia nervosa, body motion, eating disorders, point light
UCL classification: UCL
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468838
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